Several people who own Amazon’s Echo speakers have reported a strange bug: the Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for no reason.
Some users on Twitter and Reddit say the outbursts have been entirely spontaneous. Others have said that Alexa has laughed after...

If there seems to be more people using Chinese smartphones in the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta or Manila, that is because these brands now collectively outsell Samsung Electronics, the long-standing market leader in Southeast Asia.
Oppo, Vivo and Huawei Tech...

Foxconn Industrial Internet, a unit of the world’s biggest contract manufacturer whose products include Apple’s iPhones, was put on the fast track for securing the nod by China’s securities regulator to raise capital through an initial public offering.
The unit ...

Tencent Holdings, the world’s largest video game company, is betting that its new initiatives in advertising and social media would spur growth amid renewed debate in China over gaming addiction among the youth.
“Social and performance-based advertising will be ...

While Samsung dominated the headlines from this year’s Mobile World Congress with the unveiling of its new flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, LG – South Korea’s other tech giant – quietly announced a minor update to its autumn 2017 flagship, phone, the V30....

Chinese travellers may have one more essential gadget to pack for overseas trips after Sogou, China’s second largest search engine after Baidu, launched an AI-powered language translator, with more than 3,000 pre-sold within the first 24 hours.
The gadget, which...

Honor, the mobile sub-brand of Huawei Technologies that helped it become the world’s third-largest smartphone supplier, is likely to double its overseas shipments this year, underscoring the Chinese company’s dual-brand strategy with handsets available in a rang...

WeChat, China’s biggest social network and messaging app with more than 1 billion users, disabled the comments section of newly registered official accounts on Tuesday to comply with a Chinese government request.
Tencent Holdings, which operates the app on the C...

China, already the world’s biggest smartphone and internet market, appears set to become a major consumer of a range of gadgets enabled with artificial intelligence (AI), including voice-activated smart speakers and robots for the home, according to a new study....

Chip maker Qualcomm, blocked this week from a takeover bid amid national security fears, was already walking a Pacific tightrope: it has government and defence contracts in the United States, but two-thirds of its revenue come from China.
US President Donald Tru...

Multinational companies are experimenting with new ways to grab the attention of China’s consumers and are willing to spend several million yuan to garner attention in the world’s largest market.
The tool that companies such as McDonald’s and Nike have chosen ...

Facebook on Wednesday unveiled new privacy settings aiming to give its users more control over how their data is shared, following an outcry over hijacking of personal information at the giant social network.
The updates include easier access to Facebo...

Douyin, the go-to short video site for China’s Generation Z, is moving to profit from its widely popular app by integrating external online shopping links from the country’s largest e-commerce site into its platform.
The video social platform also know...

By Travis Clark
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is showing his displeasure with Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica controversy by deleting his account on the social-media site.
In a post to the site on Tuesday, Ferrell announced he would be...

With nearly every aspect of life in China migrating to mobile phones, the less tech-savvy or those not inclined to follow digital trends have become a new class of digital have nots – and there could be hundreds of millions of them.
At the age of 62, r...

The alarm on my smartphone was set for 8am on Saturday, which is rare these days as I stopped using my phone as a clock when I bought a smart speaker in the middle of last year. Powered by artificial intelligence technology, the smart speaker understan...

Are you sensitive to dust or other allergens? Or worse, fumes from your chain-smoking next-door neighbour?
Air quality (or the lack of it) is a constant concern for many of us living inside the polluted concrete jungle that is Hong Kong – especially in...

Fake news is officially allowed on one day of the year: April 1 – April Fool’s Day.
Western tech firms are known to have fun with it, especially search giant Google, which this year adopted a “Where’s Waldo?” gag for Google Maps users. US carrier T-Mo...

Gionee, the Chinese smartphone brand which ranks just behind Apple in handset sales in China, has cut its factory workforce by half amid financial woes triggered by an expensive marketing war with deep-pocketed rivals.
The Shenzhen based company has be...

Nanophotonics is one of the youngest trends in modern physics. The field of its application is the creation of more sophisticated components of electronic devices, where photons are used instead of electrons. Until recently, only gold and silver were used to...

The US Navy Command is actively engaged in the creation of a new generation of aircraft carriers, in return for serving their predecessors of the Nimitz type. In total, according to the program, it is planned to build three aircraft carriers. One of them - "...

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